Are you ready for the Rewrite anime? >anime will have 13

>13 episodes
>not two cours
It's going to be bad. No way they can do a decent adaptation with just 13 episodes.

Hopefully it will be watchable

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>>143351718
I agree no way they can adapt it in 13 episodes.

They could do a single route in that though so it might be okay.

>>143351718
Its not going to adapt anything, anime will be a new route/content that will also appear in the remake.

>>143351937
Is it going to be a Kagari route in the main part not Terra?

>>143351644
Are these girls supposed to be 10 years old?

I suddenly lose interest with the anime, at least I would read rewrite+ after it releases.

>>143352293
Apparently. Common route should be similar up to the branch point.

>>143352824
With the speed of Harvest Festa we will never get a translation.

>>143352946
You should learn Japs, anon.

>>143351644
> 13 episodes.
Is this already oficial?

If so, this project was born dead.

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I'm really glad they aren't trying to adapt the whole thing in 13 episodes

I'm optimistic

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>>143353061
13 episodes for common and one route with one hour special is acceptable.

Anime might still suck though. Can't say I'm in love with the designs.

>>143353232
For real though, how old are these kids?

Oh man another VN adaptation trying to cram 15-20 hours of character progression per route into 2 twenty minute episodes each.

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>>143353295
>>143353232
They downgraded Lucia so many sizes.

>>143353232
I fail to see the problem with the designs.

>>143352946
In the time since Rewrite got translated to now you could've learned nip.

>>143353509
They look like children compared to the VN.

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>>143353232
As expected, mai waifu looks fine.

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>>143353892
As expected Chihaya looks like a retard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj9E2VKauNc

>>143352875
There's more lewd in the VN?

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>>143353892
She will be best girl in the anime too.

>>143354052
It's subtlety told that Kotarou fuck Akane in her route.

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>>143354052
Just every scene with Shizuru.

>>143353295
Varying ages. 15, 16, 17 and 27

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>>143354481
Isn't Akane at least 2000 years old?

>>143354819
No, but her personality is. Akane's just the braindead little kid, remember. Her body is still that of a regular girl's.

Well shit, it's already been about three and a half years since Ixrec released the english patch.

>>143351644
>No 24 episode Akane or Terra route

It's going to be bad

>>143354819
>>143354947
I thought it was only the memories.

as long as we get oppai ending OVA and YO SHI NO I'll be satisfied

>>143355284
Yeah, that's a good point.

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>>143353232
How can you even compare these designs to say the Clannad ones?

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>Terra branch full of Guardian shenanigans never

>>143351644
Key anime is literally nothing without KyoAni's involvement

>>143355499
>That separation between eyes
Garbage, Rewrite designs and colors are more pleasant to see

>>143355590
Angel Beats is the best selling Key anime. There, kyoanus proved wrong.

>>143355540
All the Guardian soldiers were nothing but dicks.

Koutarou included.

>>143355499
Different studios in a different era.
The story is also a very different tone to Clannad.
That said, I don't disagree.

>>143355590
But this is pretty much nothing like the popular Key works. Maeda has nothing to do with this. There's much less romance and there's no way you could describe it as a nakige.

>>143355222
>>143355540
As much as I want a Terra adaptation, I've gotta admit that without the context of the rest of the novel it loses a lot of its impact.

>>143351644

I've never heard of this, it looks pretty interesting.

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>>143351644
Shizuru is my waifu.

>>143356443
Don't get your hopes up

>>143355713
so Angel Beats is just magically good now

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Akane is simply the best.

>>143356443
Don't expect the anime to give you an idea as to why it's good. It might do the comedy some justice but there's not nearlly enough episodes to do the rest of it well. Probably why they're doing an anime original route.

>>143356948
>best selling
read all the words in the post anon

>>143356948
>le good meme backpedal
Funny how the post never mentioned quality, just that Key doesnt need kyoanal to be successful.

>>143351644
>13 episodes
this need 24 episodes

Will not watch

>>143357296
also why is anyone okay with Tensho doing it

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>>143357296
it's not like they're doing all the routes in 13 episodes

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>>143355499
Clannad's designs at least look mature. Rewrite's designs look like toddlers.

>>143356443
The anime is going to be shit anon. It's a 13 episode adaptation of a 50+ hour long VN. Blatant advertisement for the VN, don't expect more.

>>143359212
see
>>143357337

>>143359234
I'm still skeptical, but anime original content is better than anything an adaptation could be.

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>>143359451
I agree, it's the only reason I'm at all optimistic

>Chiwa Saito
Damn it, I wasn't planning on watching this, but I guess I pretty much have to.

What should I expect to see in Rewrite? Describe it in 10 words

>>143360446
rewrite rewrite rewrite rewrite rewrite rewrite rewrite rewrite rewrite rewrite

>>143360446
The VN could be described as similar to fate mixed with more traditional key novels, and was noteworthy for having a very varied tone throughout different routes (Which could be considered either refreshing or inconsistent).

I heard a rumor that Kotaro's seiyuu implied the series would be split cour.

>>143360446
Tanaka Romeo, Ryuukishi07, and Tonokawa Yuuto collaborate on a VN that isn't anything like Key's usual work.

It's sloppy in parts and could have used more QC or more centralized creative direction or both, but overall it's a very entertaining VN with a first-rate soundtrack. The common route is hilarious, and the shift in tone and content over the course of the routes is very enjoyable.

I'm hoping that the rewrites mentioned for Rewrite+ will be more than just cosmetic. It's already quite good, but it could be excellent with the right revisions.

>>143362630
Yeah well my uncle works at 8bit and he said that we're getting 4 cours.

>>143360376
The one thing about this VN I think everyone can agree on is that the sound work is absolutely first rate. Both the VAs and the OST are uniformly top-notch. Chiwa Saito is godly as Kotori.

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If they fuck up the leaf dragon I'm going to bomb Japan.

>>143362695
Seriously, the difference in writing style between Common and Lucia was so ridiculous. It's like they didn't have an editor for R07 at all.

>>143363313
To be honest I couldn't quite make out how exactly the body worked from the VN illustrations.

>>143363395
Yeah. Tonokawa's routes felt like what would happen if Key added shonen action to its usual combo, and Romeo pretty much set the tone for the entire story (especially with Moon and Terra), but the Lucia route really didn't fit with any of the rest of the content. The whole bit where the narration basically lied to you wasn't handled well at all.

>>143363396
It's like a snake with wings, but it's body can blow up like a hot air balloon to float.

>>143357082
Best choice but stay away from my waifu

>>143363395
>It's like they didn't have an editor for R07 at all.
That's because they didn't.
Lucia's route was the first to be finished, but they didn't have the time to go back and revise it before release, so any changes they made after it was written didn't carry over. The fact that it was rushed to release seems to be the source of a lot of the problems with the novel, actually.

Anyway, doesn't really help that the transition from common to lucia's route was pretty damn terrible and completely out of place. Thankfully the route actually gets pretty alright after that.

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I briefly had small hopes for the anime but they are dead now. Just like Kotori's parents.

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>>143363535
>narration basically lied to you wasn't handled well at all.
People are still mad about this?

I know I still am.

>>143365854
I got over it because the date scene was cute.

But yeah, people are still mad.

>>143351644
That looks terrible, too bad Godani doesn't care about plebby key games anymore ;^)

>>143365854
I guess it's been long enough that I'm not mad, per se, but it still bothers me. Unreliable narration is a pretty stupid method in general, and they certainly didn't do a good job with it.

>>143366579
This. It was stupid, but nobody enjoyed the Lucia route for its horror elements anyways.

>>143366907
Unreliable narration is best done in cases where it throws doubt on characters motivations and character traits, not actual facts. Like, you tell the story from the perspective of a coward, so it's filled with motivated reasoning and justifications, even as other characters treat them with disdain.

It's annoying to be outright lied to though.

>>143367130
Yeah, I should have been more clear. It's done well in Haruhi, for instance, where Kyon's thoughts and feelings come across well through his narration. It's just silly when they basically retcon facts later on in the story.

>>143363396
I liked how bizzare it looked. Went well with the music.

>>143368179
I agree, the way the leaf dragon looked was way cooler than the earth dragon, which is just an armless t-rex.

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>all these skepticism and learned helplessness

It's kinda sad how much the VN adaptations have hurt everyone.
I still believe Romeo will find a way to make of this new route something remotely enjoyable.

I'm just satisfied with Best Key girl getting animated.

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Akane better not be the villain in this new anime route. They should make Shizuru and Lucia into the bad guys or make some entirely new villain character.

Maybe Kotori's lust for money could turn her evil and she could use her fluid druid powers to enslave everyone to become a billionaire.

>>143368725
>learned helplessness
Literally what? The quality of the anime is completely out of our control, there's nothing "Learned" about our helplessness. Besides, skepticism is the expected result when past outcomes have been bad. Blind optimism is a recipe for disappointment.

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>>143369070
y-yes senpai, but you're taking it to literally

I'm talking about learned helplessness as in the tolerance of our subjective reception, and skepticism as in other works of the Studio in question.
And I don't think someone can be blindly optimistic about the anime since there are evidence that can help you determine a possible outcome, but these aren't so bad to possibly call someone arrogant for it.

>>143351644

Ready to not give a solitary shit about another overhyped Key x Aniplex anime with mouth breathing fans lecturing constantly about what's upcoming based on the source, proper watch order and interpretation of character and things like that. A preemptive fuck right off to the entitled VN fans that are going to make this show a chore to get through for people just looking to pick up a series and not giving too much of a shit about where it came from and what the supposed pedigree of the staff involved is right from the get go. You people are the sorts of people that made threads for shows like the Fate series utterly intolerable.

>>143370148
Kill yourself

>>143370148
>overhyped

>>143353232

Arguably the older key game designs managed to look even worse and like they were drawn by a five year old. It still amazes me that this brand got so popular with it's weepy dying girl stories aimed at I'm assuming autistic and ultra sensitive people but you know otaku and such. Key stories can barely handle their own attempted moral of the story and character realizations right without hitting the goddamn reset button on everything or finding some way in which none of the cast ever actually learn everything by the time all is sad and done.

Should I stay away from this until I've played the VN?

>>143353306

But but it comes with event tickets and a new Ryukishi07 game and such. Clearly a superior product in the making.

>>143355590

I can't believe I'm agreeing with this but yes unlike Aniplex and friends at least Kyoani bothered to give a shit about their Key adaptations even if I'm not sure of the merit of such projects. Boy do Aniplex and Friends make the key era of LN/VN adaptations look like fucking Camelot in comparison and those shows sold their numbers based purely on merit and positive fan feedback, not because of the extras in the packaging. Definitely a different era of anime though even if it wasn't even a decade ago.

>>143370392
Yeah. Say what you like, but KyoAni legitimately put thought into how to adapt a VN for anime instead of just throwing things together haphazardly. If more studios bothered to do things that way, maybe adaptations wouldn't have such a bad reputation.

When will key fans learn to never expect a good adaption?

>>143357296

It's not getting 24 episodes straight up with Aniplex being the primary funder. They're interested in the Key Brand license and using it to bolster their Blu-Ray packages for a quickie Summer and then maybe Winter profit, not committing to a straight multi-cour adaptation that is going to require long term dedication and resources. If they actually gave a shit about the Key brand beyond it being equivalent to guaranteed sales they would have fixed the problems with Charlotte that they said they were going to instead of forcing another 12 episode count onto it and making literally the exact same mistakes again that are no doubt going to happen with Rewrite as well. Sucks that the license fell out of Kyoani's hand and into theirs but literally who else is going to fund something like this that doesn't even really need to be made.

>>143370148
Guess who the target audience for anime adaptations of VNs is?

/a/ isn't a place for casuals. If you don't want to be spoilered or see discussion of the original when the source material has been out for years, maybe you should just stay out of the threads.

>>143360376

That's a retarded reason to watch a show and you should feel stupid for making this post like the little cuck you are. Fucking hate people that say stupid shit like this. You belong on MAL.

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>>143370330
Still a week until it airs you could finish the VN by then if you rush it. Even if you don't you could at least get to the end of the common route giving you a nice buffer to watch the anime.

>>143362733

Yeah well my dad works at Aniplex and he said it's 1 cour

>>143355590
The problems with Angel Beats had nothing to do with P.A. Works and everything to do with bad pacing by Maeda.

>>143363395

That's because the whole thing is an amateurish production by an amateurish industry full of amateurish people that for whatever reason the powers that be have decided should be considered the gold fucking standard for what anime should aspire to so here's more adaptations and commercials for their amateur crap. Embarrassing as all fuck that anime has fallen to this low a point where it's savior writers are the absolute dregs of the Japanese entertainment industry but lucrative enough I suppose.

>>143370490

I can't help but agree wholeheartedly in retrospect as someone that historically never like Kyoani shows much. I can have my opinions about them but at least they damn well gave a shit which is more than I can say for Aniplex and friends.

>>143368179
>>143368314
The earth dragon never looked as intimidating as it should have. Kilimanjaro and the other familiars used by the edgelord trio looked the part far better.

>>143370643
>no sexual content
>that scene
What a tease.

>>143370796
Right. I think it's a shame that KyoAni keeps making anime from terrible source material, but you can't accuse them of not putting in effort.

>>143370738
And what, there was some sort of anime golden age that's gone now? What benchmark are you comparing this to, exactly?

>>143369045
Ayo what was the deal with her? Was she legit like a Nazi witch?

>>143370914
No but the head of Gaia is.

>>143370912

There was a time where it didn't feel like literally every "big show" was expected to sell cause of shit unrelated to the anime like event tickets and popular branding and where storytelling and good characterization mattered even a little yes. It wasn't a golden era or anything, but it wasn't the gong show we've had for the last couple years.

>>143370855

I don't really get it myself but when you look at how upside down the whole industry is these days it kind of makes an almost sick sort of sense. Just picture something where almost everything feels like it's kind of the opposite of how it should be run and turn out and the first things that comes to mind at least for me are the United States Congress and the Japanese Animation Industry.

>>143370562
It's pretty much the same situation as with Utawarerumono 2. They've got a game coming out and need an advertisement, so they've thrown together an anime adaptation.

I'm still hoping we get something half-decent, but that's probably in vain.

>>143370914
She's the holy woman of Gaia, which means she's inherited millennia of terrible memories and an instinctual desire to eradicate humanity. It's not like Akane wants to kill everyone personally, but one person's will doesn't mean much compared to generations of accumulated grudges.

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The five main girls fight each other in other in a battle royal.

Who do you think would win?

>>143371080
Shizuru.

So can I watch this without knowing a single thing about the VN?

>>143371080
Assuming Chihaya has Sakuya, then it's a toss up between her, Cheesuru or nuclearman

>>143371171
How are we supposed to know?
It'll probably end up being more enjoyable if you don't know what you're missing when they skip a bunch of stuff, though.

>>143351644
>no dragon fight

I can't. I can no longer put up with this bullshit.

>>143371080
whoever has the better aoe skill

my bet goes to Lucia.

>>143366824
Too busy animating their mediocre literature that flops everytiem, like phantom sales ;)

>>143370971
>>143371053

Fair enough. The dominance of LN adaptations has definitely crowded out a lot of the space that could have gone to original anime, and since the business model behind adaptations is to boost sales of the source, making a high-quality show isn't a priority.

Subjectively, though, I think part of it might just be the fact that there are so many more shows now each season than there were before. There's just a lot more poor-quality stuff out there mixed in with the occasional gem.

>>143371080
If Chihaya can use Sakuya, then her. Otherwise Shizuru.

>>143371327
Or yeah, if collateral damage doesn't matter at all, then Lucia.

>>143371171
The answer is the same for every adaptation -- you can try, but don't come complaining that you don't understand things if you don't bother checking out the source material.

>>143371277
What the hell anon this will be the best fucking dragon fight ever he is going to talk and shit and everyone who sees it is going to be like wow this was totally worth seeing

---- Earth Dragon final battle completely cut out ----

Incredible that was the best final boss battle ever thanks Key.

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>>143371327
Lucia is as filthy as she looks.

>>143371376

Now they're just making original anime based around LN tropes and people like Qualidea Code next season so it's not even a matter of LN versus original anime, the late night anime industry is just completely married to the LN and VN industry now as it's source of people and ideas. It lacks any sort of identity of it's own.

>>143351644
I'm not one of those morons that thinks the end of five-tone shading was the worst thing that ever happened to anime, but couldn't they have chosen a better color palette? This is some of the worst coloring I've seen in years.

>>143371458
Terra final battle was better, hopefully the new version actually adds CG for it and the other scenes that needed them.

>>143371069

Honestly I'm not going to completely shit on people that like to hope for things but when it comes to the current late night anime industry I would strongly suggest not getting your hopes up. I have little frame of reference for why anybody gets hyped for these things only to be consistently disappointed every single time. It almost feels like a kind of Stockholm or battered wife syndrome, particularly when it pertains to Aniplex sponsored projects but really just in general. I mean fuck whoever expected something like Kumamiko to go as entirely south as it did in only a couple episodes.

>>143371080
It depends.

If Chihaya has Sakuya s/he wins. Otherwise Shizuru wins. But, if the battle takes place in an environment where Lucia can cut loose and had enough time to poison the surroundings before the fight started, then she would win.

>>143371555

This shit costs money when it's entirely capable of selling enough to turn a profit on it's own purely based on the Key name and the extras and exclusives it's going to pack into the Blu-Rays. If you're trying to run a business would spending lets say twice as much to make it look better for maybe a 10% gain in returns for it over the course of it's seven volumes make much sense to you?

>>143371458
Such a ridiculous decision. I can't believe someone at Key actually thought that cutting it would be a good idea.

>>143371587
This. For a major studio like Key, it's nuts that Rewrite suffered from not having enough CG. You expect those sorts of problems from indie developers, not one of the big brand names in the industry.

>>143371520
To a certain extent this was always inevitable. All three industries target the same audience, so it's not a surprise that there'd be blending over time, and it's not as if every adaptation is universally terrible.

Even so, I agree that the collapse of the late-night anime industry into animation department for the LN/VN industry is really unfortunate.

>>143371677
It's basically a race against time. Shizuru and Chihaya both have some resistance against Lucia's überpoison, so it depends on whether they make it in time.

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>>143371080
Kotori would win since she's the rightful owner of the True servant Kotarou.

>>143371509
She looks like a pure angel who just got out of the shower.

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>>143351644
It's going to be shit, but hopefully we get some good dojins out of it.

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>>143371748

Well at least there's still the day time industry where shows actually last. The shows might not look as nice on average or at least not particularly better and are often commercials for manga or toys or such but damn if it doesn't feel like the staff give more of a shit when the chips are down and fully in play.

>>143371655
>>143371734
Shit like this makes me glad to be more of an LN/manga/VN fan than an anime fan.

>>143371748

I've never really found in game artwork to be one of Keys strong suits period. It's weird but they just aren't very good at it compared to say music IMO.

>>143371748
>Such a ridiculous decision. I can't believe someone at Key actually thought that cutting it would be a good idea.
I'd rather they cut a fight we basically already saw than something that actually matters.

>>143371765
>Kotori would win since she's the rightful owner of the True servant Kotarou.
You mean the guy who's still a chump compared to Sakuya?
I mean we're talking about what essentially boils down to Archer vs Shirou here. Sakuya is essentially just a better, more developed Kotarou. He doesn't have the ribbon, but he doesn't really need it. Admitedly, Kotarou was able to put him down when he turned into a big guy, but he was essentially a mindless beast at that point.

Rewrite fights were mostly pretty shit anyway. Weakest parts of the novel if you ask me.

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>>143371080
>>143371677
Kotori would have no chance at all if Lucia is on the field since the poison would kill any familiars she could use and you can't hide from the poison.

Against Shizuru Kotori might be able to hold her off depending what weapons Shizuru has. Against a sniper rifle she would be dead as soon as she was found. Only way she could ever kill Shizuru though is if she made a mistake.

>>143371951
>Sakuya is essentially just a better, more developed Kotarou.

Yeah, in his prime. If we're talking at the time of the VN then Sakuya's body was already breaking down and Kotarou fought evenly with him after taking care of his big guy form. Note that this isn't even with all of Kotarou's alternate timeline knowledge and instincts.

>>143371990
No anon, Shizuru is the one with the anti familiar poison. Getting our powers mixed up here. In fact I don't even know how effective Lucia's poison is against familiars since they aren't living.

>>143371914
Itaru Hinoue is terrible, and it's remarkable how little she's improved over the decades. Even Takeuchi's gotten more skilled over time.

The thing is, she's one of Key's founding members, and is still really influential inside the company. I'd be happy if they let Na-Ga do more of the character designs in the future, but that's never happening.

>>143371951
Well, that's fair. I'd still rather they not cut anything at all, but we can't have everything we want I guess.

>>143371951
Agreed. In this case there's a good reason, too -- it's mentioned in the post-release interview about how neither R07 nor Romeo wanted to write fight scenes, so they let Tonokawa handle them since he was the only one who didn't hate writing them.

>>143371876

I don't know about Light novels but I definitely feel like I by far play more games and read more graphic novels than I watch anime lately because at least even if the stories aren't always the greatest I'm actually doing stuff and interacting with things (in the case of games) or appreciating good artwork as a means of enjoyment instead of sitting their watching bad television for 24 minutes at a time hoping it ever gets any better when usually it doesn't. It's not really a particular problem with the anime aesthetic I'd say so much as the utterly asinine, pigeon holing and limited way that the anime industry runs itself now. If it weren't for manga, games and such the anime industry would have already been long since dead and bankrupt if it was trying to keep up on it's current decade out of date business models, that's just a cold hard fact. No other industry in Japan right now is as entirely reliant on other media formats as anime in order to stay relevant and afloat as anime has become. It's also no small wonder I think that currently every other Japanese media industry or format is way more profitable than anime and it's stupid Blu-Ray event ticket packages to an increasingly embarrassing extent.

Anyway yeah these days I feel like the most mediocre Japanese game is probably more enjoyable to spend time with than the most outstanding of what anime supposedly has to offer which is probably just a commercially over-marketed but technically phoned adaptation of that game anyway really.

>>143371951
>>143372128
>Tanaka: I always have trouble deciding how to handle battles, so I don't really leap at the chance to write them. In fact at first I thought about borrowing the battle system from Little Busters. But everyone at Key firmly opposed the idea......(laughs).

>Tonokawa: Of course they did (laughs). That thing was meant to be a joke.

>Tanaka: I was imagining a map with enemies on it you could encounter and battle......but still, Tonokawa-san took care of the battles for me so that was a big help.

You can find the full interview here:
http://amaterasu.tindabox.net/blog/?p=1776

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>>143371765
Tell me about Kotarou why does he wear the ribbon?

If he took it off would he die?

>>143372197
Well said. I've got nothing more to add at this point.

It's a shame, too. I really do like animation as a medium.

>>143372039
Man, I need to re-read this fucking thing, I can't remember anything beyond big guy in her route.

New version comes out on july 29th, right? I wonder if we'll have to wait for a fan translation or if they're gonna release an official english version after how successful the crowdfunded Clannad translation was.

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>>143372069
>anti familiar poison
Shizuru is just unstoppable she can counter anything.

>>143372295
>Man, I need to re-read this fucking thing
That's exactly what they want you to do

>>143372295
There's going to be an official English version -- it's already been announced.

http://anitay.kinja.com/visual-arts-announces-plans-to-release-rewrite-in-the-1778000315

Ixrec confirmed on Twitter that he's working with Key for this one.

https://twitter.com/Ixrec/status/734184869530570753

>>143372205
Actually I feel like the RPG battle system could be a great storytelling device, a shame they were so against it.

>>143372265
It would be extremely deadly.

Actually that's a good point. I don't remember it ever being brought up, but I assume that the ribbon is keeping him alive, given that it's literally fused with his blood.

>>143372337
She's like a superweapon all by herself, literally unstoppable by any amount of normal humans.

>>143372427
He pretty much started dying the moment it got removed in Kotori's route.

>>143372414
I think Key can't see RPGs as anything but a gag element at this point.

>>143372489
She's a hero unit capable of attack, defense, and support all at once!

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Should I read the VN if I already have been spoiled about how (big fuckin spoilers) MC is a soldier/special agent who lost his memories and there's monsters and shit?

>>143372128

Well I just see it as the same thing that's clearly happened to Maeda. When everyone around you that you are willing to listen to or who's feedback actually reaches you is constantly telling you that you're a flawless genius that crushes it perfectly every single time they work on a project then why are you going to figure you have anything to improve on ever? From what I've heard Maeda is on record as saying he doesn't listen to his critics anyway, only the praise he gets which is near unending anyway so I wonder if it's the same for the rest of Key/Visual Arts core staff.

Again I find this phenomenon with the most popular VN people to be something pretty unique to the upper echelons of the VN sphere and it's what seems to have happened to Type/Moon and other Key/Visual Arts people too. When something apparently goes over really well in the VN sphere (which I swear hasn't happened since the mid 2000's anyway) the people behind those projects become forever immortalized icons like Gen Urobuchi, Kinoko Nasu, Takeuchi, or Jun Maeda who can from that point on do absolutely no wrong ever by their fans and whose projects and adaptations thereof from then on make guaranteed easy money backed by die hard loyalist fans and eventually their work becomes the financial backbone of a given era of late night anime to which people that have been in the animation industry longer and who have contributed far more to it are apparently supposed to now aspire to be comparable too. I don't fucking get it and it's become part of my VN fans are particularly prone to psychotic fits of cultish fanaticism theory.

Not even the Light Novel industry is quite like this even if it shares a lot of similarity in structure and content with what gets pumped out of the Visual Novel industry. I think Light Novels are on average shoddier works, but I think the damage that Visual Novels and the most zealot fans of them have done to the late night animation industry is greater.

>>143372531
Shizuru is like that one unit in an RPG that's supposed to be a healer, but ends up doing the most damage anyways with all her self buffs. Fucking KOS-MOS.

>>143372403
>That's exactly what they want you to do
And I'd be happy to.

>>143372409
Hot damn, how did I miss this news?
Here's hoping it won't be long after the jap release then. I'll be more than happy to fork out the cash to buy Plus when it's out, even if it doesn't end up being worth it.

>>143372489
Kind of funny that she's just all-round way more powerful than Kotarou despite that fact that he has 2 (two!) special snowflake powers. She can essentially do everything he can without the implicit bodily mutation.

>>143372539
I did it while being as spoiled as you and it was still amazing for me. Trust me there's a lot of shit still that you haven't been spoiled on. It's still a ride.

>>143372276

What can you really do though. Look at the industry, look at the current fanbase and what it settles for, champions and how it just loves to shitpost and make the entire fandom look like it's composed entirely of idiots and horrible people instead of just an unfortunately sizeable chunk of it. These problems are those peoples shit to sort out at this point, not mine. I've said my peace but until more people get a grip including those that can really make a difference the status quo is going to be what it is right now which is shoddy 12 episode commercials that try to make their money back or turn a profit with benefits and event tickets.

>>143372630
Shizuru's power is basically cheating. She has an endless amount of possible powers combined into one. And polluter types are supposed to be support roles who are bad at combat. Bullshit, both polluters we've seen are overpowered as shit.

>>143372539
That spoiler is not quite right either, so yeah.

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>>143372539
Go for it research shows people still enjoy things just about as much even if they have been spoiled a bit on it.

From what I remember the game goes to lots of effort to try and hide it from you even not showing some of the tab names and things like that. The opening movie is a total troll which I fell for completely when I first played it totally unspoiled.

>>143372539
Yeah. My favourite part of the way the novel is written is the biggest twists aren't even treated as big revelations by the narrative. It doesn't flaunt them at all and the basically all serve to give a much deeper understanding of the characters and their circumstances. Adds a lot of enjoyment of subsequent readings.

It struck me recently that Rewrite is a pretty good example of literary fiction in VNs. It doesn't really fit into any genre cleanly, and makes a solid attempt to further the medium.

>>143371458
To be honest it wouldn't have been much of a fight. He was burning through his mana like it was going out of business and thanks to the events of the past route superhumans already had an ancestral memory of fighting dragons successfully (Akane's route). He would have just called on that, copied the ribbons, and sliced it to pieces. It was the natural selection and evolution that made Akane's fight interesting.

>>143371431
>>143371509

winning the bout, bombardment style

or should I say decay style?

>>143372597
Maeda at least seems to be pretty affected by criticism, to the point where they did a special in the Little Busters 4koma about that specifically.
https://bato.to/reader#e2ffa446a6008459_2

Either way, people putting creators on pedestals is nothing new. You see people worshipping Sawano or Kajiura for soundtracks as well, and I'm sure there are sakugafags that idolize particular animators. And if you ever spend time in a Raildex thread, you'll see that LN fans can be just as autistic.

Eventually, though, even the most die-hard fan gets sick of creators that have totally degenerated. I'm a big TM fan myself, but I can't help but feel disgust for how TM's basically given up on doing serious works (no Mahoyo 2, Tsukihime 2, etc) and is basically just milking the Fate franchise far past its expiration date.

This would be less of a problem if past-their-prime creators regularly got replaced by new talent, but the big names of the 2000s have kept their stranglehold on the industry for a decade. Maeda, Nasu, and Urobuchi are well past their creative peaks, but the industry still throws money at them, and it's just leading to shoddy works.

>>143372197

I remember seeing one of those yearly Oricon top media earner things at one point and only two of them were franchises where the core earning format could be said to be anime. I'm also reasonably certain they were GuP and Gundam as well, the latter of which actually makes the majority of it's profit from model kits and multi-media stuff but for the purposes of the list is categorized as core anime format because it started in 1979 as an original TV anime. It's pretty damning stuff cause there were tons of manga, music and novel things on that list.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-12-29/top-selling-media-franchises-in-japan-2015/.97051

Ah here we go. So yeah GuP wasn't even on the list (that was the first half 2016 list I was thinking of) and the top 30 literally goes:

21 Manga
3 Music
3 Manga
2 Other
1 Anime....and it's fucking Gundam which is a bajillion years older than every other franchise including even One Piece.

Pretty damning.

>>143373040

Sorry should read

21 Manga
3 Music
3 Novel
2 Other
1 Anime

>>143372409
any estimate on how long the english release will be after the nip one?

>>143372779
Sure, insofar as there's such a thing as the "literary fiction" of VNs.

I think Romeo's other works (Cross Channel, I/O, etc) and Harumi Sakurai's works fit better, though. Actually, Liar-Soft is pretty good about doing stuff like this in general -- Forest does crazy shit with the medium.

>>143373040
In other words, anime is an advertisement for the source material.

Pretty sure we knew this, but it's good to have it repeated.

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>>143353232
Kagari is the best Rewrite

>>143373128
Best Key girl.

>>143373128
She's alright.
Did her nightly visits to Kotarou ever lead anywhere (other than leading to Kotarou forming the Occult club, anyway)?

Well.... at least it's not just a rushed adaptation I guess?

Fuck though, I want proper Moon and Terra adaptations. Which would only happen with AT LEAST 3 cours, but oh well.

>>143373128
I'll be the first in line for Third Star from the Magic - CreamyKagarin.

>>143373085
No idea. If they're going off of Amaterasu it can't take too long, since most of the translation work is done already, but there could be bottlenecks at other parts of the process. Then again, Key seems pretty serious about sales in the West nowadays, so I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't too much of a gap. One can hope.

>>143373040
Wow. That's pretty damning.

In retrospect, though, that makes GuP all the more incredible. It's basically the sleeper hit of the decade at this point.

>>143373165
If you mean anything sexual, then no.

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>>143373128
Chances are there is going to be a lot more of her in the anime,

No way she will be as good as Kagari from Moon route though.

>>143372983

I think people just blindly worship any Sony Music affiliated artist period now not just Sawano and Kajiura but they're definitely the two most obvious, especially the former where Sawano soundtracks literally make me want to not watch shows I might check out otherwise because they're so damn intolerable with the intrusive vocal tracks that never shut the fuck up when I'm trying to immerse myself in the atmosphere of what might otherwise be a perfectly functional scene. I wish he'd just fuck off for at least a year or barring that small ask just go back to the kind of sound he had with Unicorn initially which was more than okay and the initial reason he got popular to begin with. Also I really don't see anybody else on a soundtrack a season pace like he is which has become as obnoxious as it is ridiculous. Actually I really don't ever remember any composer being on a soundtrack a season pace or being overused to what is now looking like a desperate degree (fuck it he sells and this inevitable garbled train wreck of a show needs all the help it can get so get him in there) at any prior point in the history of Japanese animation before he came around period so he's kind of a unique and unfortunate anomaly that perfectly reflects the rather pathetic times for this industry. I guess as long as it keeps him out of the Japanese video game industry after that Xenoblade Chronicles X debacle though he can score all the shitty over hyped action anime he wants though.

Anyway I truly think in the case of Hiroyuki Sawano any other industry with any other fanbase with higher standards would have said enough already rather than please sir I want some more after the 3rd time he rehashed the same bland vocal soundtrack. He singlehandedly made the whole Yuki "Same Song" Kajiura thing look like the smallest and most easily pushed aside of offenses by comparison

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>>143373342
I'm pretty sure she was sneaking into his room every night to suck on his ribbon

>>143373342
No, I meant plot wise. From what I recall she just kind of stops and it's implied it's because of the charms Akane gives him, but he stops using them later on and she doesn't show up again until she gets found by Guardian/killed by poison/whatever happens to her in Akane's route

>>143373417
If you finish the entire game and 100% everything then when you replay the main route you get an extra scene about it you can only view once then it never shows you it again.

I'm not even joking. May you rest in peace Tomoko ;_;

>>143373499
>Tomoko
i remember when i first saw this, i was so confused why my autoskip stopped

>>143373388
>I wish he'd just fuck off for at least a year or barring that small ask just go back to the kind of sound he had with Unicorn
Or Blue Exorcist. You know, actual variation, something anything after that point has lacked.

>Actually I really don't ever remember any composer being on a soundtrack a season pace
Taku Iwasaki gets just as much if not more work than Sawano. That said, Iwasaki has way more range to his style (even if he's mostly been doing wubbity wub electro stuff recently and I've been loving it.)

>>143373499
Yeah I replayed the game to that point and saw the scene and have competely forgotten what it involved.

Something something breaking the fourth wall about save games, right?

>>143373499
It's actually incredible that the game manages to explain basically everything. Even Sukemon.

Oppai route best route

>>143373294

Yeah kind of. It really didn't seem like they were going out of their way to try to manufacture a big hit with it like something like Kabaneri of The Iron Fortress or Aldnoah.Zero felt like either. It just kind of seemed to happen over time and the movie especially surprised everybody I think by making every big budget heavily advertised to be a big hit late night anime movie project in the last year like Anthem of The Heart and Kizumonogatari look like a footnote in comparison. It also seems to have done as good a job as anything in recent memory aside from maybe Love Live in making mainstream Japan aware of and appreciative of something related to late night anime and possibly even made new anime fans which really isn't easy at all considering how low most of Japan thinks of otaku and anything that isn't programming for kids like Pokemon or Sazae-san and how most anime producers have completely written off 95% of the population as ever potentially being interested in or a target for it's products. I think it'll be a while yet before we see something like that again unless Bandai Visual has some surprises up it's sleeve.

>>143373388
This. His work for Unicorn was exquisite, but after that it's been all downhill from there.

Same for Kajiura with Kara no Kyoukai -- if there's strong creative direction and an emphasis on making the music work for the show, we get good things.

Maybe the production committees are just so risk-averse that they go with proven artists while ignoring the actual reasons why these artists became big names in the first place.

>>143373591
This was my favorite part of the game. You go through this wacky common route, which is very light hearted and manages to have supernatural elements without taking them very seriously. Then there's a point where it all becomes serious and everything that's already happened is put in a new light. It's gratifying to see that "Yes, what you observed wasn't normal, and it is important" rather than glossing over it like a lot of VN/anime annoyingly do.

I'm trying to get my copy of Rewrite off my old laptop onto my desktop cause I never finished it and the laptop barely works now. I copied the program files folder and save folder for it over but it won't launch with just that, so I guess I'll have to settle on completely reinstalling. Is the http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=223420 the best rip of the game? I can't remember what I used the first time around.

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Wonder who will be the most popular girl with anime only watchers.

Guessing it will be either Shizuru or Akane.

Everyone will hate Lucia.

>>143373731
You've probably done this, but is system locale Japanese on your desktop?

>>143373786
It might be Kotori. She was the best girl for much of the common route, especially the beginning.

>>143373801
Of course. The weird part is it doesn't even give an error code, it straight-up just doesn't launch, nothing in the task manager or anything.

>>143373786
>I see a faggot

And talking about faggots, looking forward to the banter between Smelltarou and Sakuya, assuming it gets animated, of course

>>143373591
If you think about it, it also helps explain most of the other Key magic in Kanon and Air as well.

>>143373657
Well, GuP's very far out of the norm in other ways, too. Mizushima and Actas clearly put an inordinate amount of effort into the movie, to the point of delaying it for two years so it could be a full two hours long.

After watching it, you can't really call it anything other than a labor of love -- there are so many small details that only stick out on a third or fourth rewatch.

>>143373583

The clear and obvious point between style change to the NzK era of whatever the fuck you call his current vocal tracks and the more traditional and measured style of Blue Exorcist, Unicorn, Gigantic Formula and his old work for Live Action TV rests in Kill la Kill and it's ever present vocalized character leitmotifs. I couldn't stand those Don't Lose Your Way and Blumenkranz songs by the last quarter of the show due to their overuse and it actually slowed down my watch of it because you knew every single time the characters they were assigned to showed up those songs would be drowning out those characters scenes and the simple awesomeness of hammy Ami Koshimizu and Romi Paku going at it.

Anyway I find that somewhat hard to believe about Iwasaki unless he's also had a sountrack a season since 2014, but now that I look at his wikipedia page you might be right and low and behold it's mostly Aniplex projects he's getting constantly assigned to same as Sawano and to a lesser extent at least nowadays Kajiura. My theory is Aniplex fucking ruins reasonably talented people by running them into the ground and cramming them down peoples throats faster than they are reasonably able to experiment with and develop fresh sounds and tracks. I'd say the supply far outweighs the demand in this case, but for whatever reason people seem to eat up every soundtrack he craps out and think he's enduringly the best thing in anime OST composing so he's clearly and inexplicably still in high demand. Like literally every show he composes for no matter how small, similar and unvaried the soundtrack is from the one he did a season before is people list the music as a highlight and showstopper. It'll be the same for that Puppet Show thing too.

Anyway I'd kill for more orchestral tracks in anime again like used to be more the norm or at least a reasonable expectation. I get it that producers are trying to be hip and trendy with the times but man....

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Post yfw

This ending got me the most of all of them. I'm a real sucker this kinda thing.

>>143373814
>good morning Koutarou-kun. Please don't talk to me.

Suuuuuuure..

>>143373709

Kara no Kyoukai remains about the only Type-Moon thing I've enjoyed period and the only time Yuki Kajiura's soundtrack ever stood out to me as particularly noteworthy aside from some key Madoka Magica episodes. I think she just gave more of a shit back then too, kind of like Sawano and even Aniplex as a producer. Fuck I wish it was still even circa 2011 anime era sometimes :(

>>143373731
http://erogegames.com/rewrite-337/ is where i got it from

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>>143373814
True there is a lot more of Kotori too. Akane is even the last girl to be introduced and she is never going to be in any of the classroom scenes.

>>143373857
Think the scene they all go to Chihaya's house is in the common route so he will turn up at least once.

>>143373932
My friendzone fetish is stronger than you can possibly imagine!

Honestly I just loved the dynamic they had. They felt more like actual friends than just about any 2 characters in a VN I've seen.

>>143373709

I think that's exactly what is happening.

>>143373918
Bittersweet endings are always the worst for me.

Fuuko's route in Clannad made me feel the same way.

>>143370330
100% yes. For fucks sake please do not ruin this VN for yourself.

>>143373871

It's kind of ironic when you think about Kizumonogatari and how it was delayed nearly 4 years just so they could split it up into a trilogy loyal fan money bilking scheme that stands a reasonable chance of not even pulling in the box office that GuP did across all three of it's parts by the time all is said and done.

>>143371677
>>143371080
How long does it even take for Lucia to release the toxins? I was assuming it wasn't very long at all.

Can Sakuya resist the toxins?

>>143373918
I still get emotional every time I listen to love letter, which is pretty frequently. I loved this ending, I don't care that everyone seems to hate shizuru's route.

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>>143373979
I bet Kotori stayed home every night teasing her druid fluids while thinking about Kotarous wood.

Not like she was interested in any other guys.

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>>143374124
The route had a strong ending even if it lost its way a bit in the middle.

>>143373908
It's basically an abuse of the very idea of leitmotifs. Taking something meant to work well in the background (as with Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings OST) and putting it front an center totally defeats the purpose.

>>143374056
Well with Kizu they basically just pulled a Peter Jackson. At some point it's so obvious that they're trying to milk the fanbase that nobody is fooled anymore.

>>143373950
>just gave more of a shit back then too

It all basically boils down to this. We're living in an era where by and large anime is made by people who either don't give a shit or aren't allowed to give a shit.

>>143374089
It takes a while for the suppressants to stop affecting her. Plus, in her route she didn't go full bioweapon until she got surgically altered or something by McFarden.

>>143374089
I know he made a charm so Chihaya could resist them in Lucia's route. He wasn't present though, so I think they knocked him out? I don't quite remember, but were they super-effective on familiars?

>>143373871

I love how despite everything that has come out since and the fact that it's been out for a month now that the GuP movie is still somehow the #1 ranked anime BD preorder on Amazon and at certain times of the day by a considerable margin. I don't know if that's it being that much more highly regarded than anything else that has come out recently, the late night anime industry just balling up on itself in the last couple years and just sucking in it's own right or a bit of both but probably a bit of both. It's just a staggering power gap on the level of Love Live Second Season and everything else that came out during it's season. Then again this is Japan, land of the two cell phone games that make up 80% of the total markets revenue so it's not exactly uncommon to see a big fish in a pond of tadpoles phenomenon like this in it's media sectors.

>>143373908
Well the thing is Sawano soundtracks ARE really good if it's the first one you've heard from him. A lot of the shows he scores are the types that people new to anime watch, so a lot of the time the praise comes from people who just haven't heard enough of his work to see how copy/pasted a lot of it is.

Anyway, I don't think you complaint with KlK is really all that fair. It's not Sawano's fault that the tracks were used the way they were, and KlK soundtrack was the biggest departure from the SnK styled score since Blue Exorcist. It did suffer from a few tracks sounding like leftovers from SnK but it was fairly varied. But everything after that was the same damn thing over and over.

Personally I've always found orchestral stuff be very much the white bread of soundtracks, so the variation of genre and style present in the anime OST industry is a big part of what drew me to it in the first place. However I kind of agree that it's about time we see a bit of a resurgance, even if it's in the form of what Iwasaki did with TTGL and mixing it with electronic synths and rap and stuff.

>>143374124
>>143374173
This. The ending was fantastic despite the really wonky mid-part of the route.

>>143370148
Ironically, VN readers won't know what happens either.

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>>143373918
>>143374124
>>143374040
Akane's ending hit me pretty hard.

>>143374249
Well, I do think it's the best thing to come out for a long time, and maybe even the best movie since Disappearance. The deluge of threads since subs came out is testament to just how excited people have been about it.

It's basically a movie that does what it sets out to do flawlessly. People want to see lots of superb tank action, and the movie delivered in spades. Plus, the whole thing is wrapped in a self-aware we-know-this-is-silly-but-we're-doing-it-anyways vibe -- the movie is nothing but ridiculous fun, and proud of it.

https://a.pomf.cat/hlnbdb.webm

Link very, very related.

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>>143374393
That's a good one too.

>>143374393
That ending was actually great, better than the one where Kotarou literally becomes Greenpeace biggest fan.

>>143374244

Well yeah a leitmotif is meant to cue a scene with a particular character or concept, not overtake and completely drown out the scene entirely before it even gets underway. I wonder if the people that worship Sawano even consider something like that or just get all hyped up the second the drops kick in. Again in any other industry with any other fanbase of higher or really any standards I think what goes on with Sawano tracks gets seen for what it is. Woefully incompetent, unvaried, effortless and limited choice of material and poor instinct on where to use it. It should be seen as an embarrassment and increasingly desperation to milk popular names that peaked over 5 years ago not as perennial top tier musical scoring.

I think Aniplex in particular just makes these things way too obvious at this point. Milking goes on to a certain extent with any hit franchise but they practically seem like they're trying to make it a part of the entertainment package and like something the fanbase should be proud to be a part of or something with how out in the open they make the obvious milking and try to spin it like they're offering fans more and a superior product somehow. It's one of the reasons I can't stand them and the fact that their output must make up at least a third of the late night industries total output at this point. It's like every time I turn around now whatever is billed as the next big thing has them at the top of the production committee and they almost always end up shit for all the hype

People that don't give a shit, are talentless at their assigned tasks aside from the name brand cred they bring to a project from whatever sector of the LN or VN field they historically worked and made their bones in, are unable to recognize the true talents of those that could be getting put to good use or all of the above I'd say. In short excessive waste of human resources.

>>143374506
I agree. It was very bitter-sweet.

>>143374540
>Well yeah a leitmotif is meant to cue a scene with a particular character or concept, not overtake and completely drown out the scene entirely before it even gets underway. I wonder if the people that worship Sawano even consider something like that or just get all hyped up the second the drops kick in. Again in any other industry with any other fanbase of higher or really any standards I think what goes on with Sawano tracks gets seen for what it is. Woefully incompetent, unvaried, effortless and limited choice of material and poor instinct on where to use it. It should be seen as an embarrassment and increasingly desperation to milk popular names that peaked over 5 years ago not as perennial top tier musical scoring.
You're mistaking composer for sound designer.
Sawano has no control over where and how the track is used, that's job of the sound director. Even so, chances are it wasn't the sound director's fault really either, as he was probably given directions to use music the way it was, because it's pretty atypical to have the music take the role it did in KlK.

>>143374680
This. Oftentimes the sound design and engineering matters quite a lot more than the actual OST composition.

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>>143371845
This will be the best thing about the Rewrite anime.

>>143374267

I can respect that explanation of things, but I still don't think it's what's going on entirely. I think fans nowadays are just entirely incapable of distinguishing sound or caring if it fits the show they are watching or just reminds them of the last one the person scored for and just automatically equate anything loud and "hype" with being top tier TV anime scoring.

>>143374411

There's a good chance it probably is. Japan sure seems to think so to the point where it seems to have transcended the stigma of being an anime (particularly a late night one) and gained acceptance in Japan as a beloved film period, not just "for an anime" which again is something the industry really REALLY needed post 2014 Ghibli closing far more than the next Fate anime that sells to it's own established fans because it has the Fate branding on it or Key anime that sells for the same reasons or even Mari Okada melodrama movie that sells because it has a popular idol group shilling it and is related to one of two of it's producers only actual completely original megahit anime franchises in it's entire 20 year history except not really at all.

I don't know if this means anything or can lead to a brighter horizon for an industry desperately in need of it's own hits and projects that stand on their own that staff can be truly proud of or if it just doubles down on more of the same stupid "safe" shit with "safe" names attached that it's been doing for the last few years but if 2016 does mark some sort of a turning point like some figure it might it wouldn't surprise me if GuP manages to play a part along with the increasing murmurings of discontent that have been growing noticeably in Japan since the year got underway. Thing is even if 90% of Japanese fans were for more of a GuP movie type of approach to it's late night anime production the shitlords that make up the anime production committees are so far up their own asses right now I doubt they'd take it under advisement.

>>143374680

Sawano Soundtracks in his NzK era are pretty unusual period. Aside from stuff that uses licensed music like say for example the Forrest Gump Soundtrack (where the music is specifically chosen to fit the era or tone the scene is trying to invoke) there aren't many compositions or composers whose output for "showtunes" consists primarily of vocal tracks. It must be incredibly hard for anybody to find good places to use some of these tracks or where they won't intrude onto scenes with dialogue in them since there isn't very much of a sense of uniformity of style or like he's even seen or is attempting to score anything to the show in particular. I really think he just makes some vocal albums with Mika Kobayashi now and the studio just has it forced onto them and has to try to somehow make the tracks fit. Aldnoah.Zero really fucking felt like that in a lot of cases and it seemed like they just said fuck it lets keep using the meme song from the first episode ending everybody went bonkers over any time anything "cool" happens.

>>143374827
>I can respect that explanation of things, but I still don't think it's what's going on entirely. I think fans nowadays are just entirely incapable of distinguishing sound or caring if it fits the show they are watching or just reminds them of the last one the person scored for and just automatically equate anything loud and "hype" with being top tier TV anime scoring.
Well, yeah. My point doesn't really matter because the fans you're talking about don't consider the difference either, so they're praising him for the reasons you found fault in, which means you're right about that.

>just automatically equate anything loud and "hype" with being top tier TV anime scoring.
To be fair, that means the music is doing its job. Doesn't make it good music or anything, but if it's invoking the feelings it's supposed to then at least it's doing something right.

>>143374961
>there aren't many compositions or composers whose output for "showtunes" consists primarily of vocal tracks.
I'm not so sure that's how I would describe Sawano's stuff, really. There's usually only 2, maybe 3 tracks with emphasis on vocals in most Sawano scores (unless you count choir), and even then sound directors and such can always just ask him for an instrumental version with the vocals cut out if necessary.

>>143370148
>You people are the sorts of people that made threads for shows like the Fate series utterly intolerable.
When are Fate threads not utterly intolerable?

>>143375462
Sometimes when there's actual new content rather than powerlevel wanking.

>>143376800
enjoy your shit adaptation

>>143374411
That looks like shit. The CGI hurts my eyes.

>>143377152
I'm going to enjoy it and there's nothing you can do to stop me. Then I'm going to read the VN for the third time.

>>143377330
That word does not mean what you think it does. If someone has read the VN, they're not a secondary. If someone watches the anime, but doesn't read the VN then they are a secondary.

>>143370658

At first it was supposed to be 2 cours though.

>>143378070
Angel beats could have been good if it wasn't so rushed.

The problem is that Maeda didn't learn from his mistake and did the exact same thing with Charlotte.

>studio 8-bit
fuck off, reading the VN instead

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>>143380654
good job anon

>>143380654
Should've started with that.

>>143377383
He just said you're not a secondary, just a shiteater.

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>>143353232
Nice moeblobs.

>>143370255
Sounds just like anime

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>13 episodes

Why even try?

So there's no true tree end?

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>>143380654
>even considering watching adaption first

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Spoiler-free Rewrite synopsis for animeonlyfags:

Rewrite tells the story of Kazamatsuri Bond, a 27 year old agent of U.N. Special Ops (UNSO).
Bond was an edgy kid, he enjoyed killing bratty children's parents in front of them.
He fought the terrorists of the Greenpeace conglomerate with every drop of his blood, no matter how many dinosaurs they had.
Both factions were fighting over a nuclear device called the Lock, which could destroy the world.
During one such battle Bond was defeated, and put into a coma because of the nuclear device.

Now at age 27, after waking from his coma, Bond decided fuck it and to enter school again, because he still looked like he was 17 from nuclear radiation.
Well he actually has amnesia as a side effect, but he just wants to live it up at school like he never got to.
He wanted to get a girlfriend, mess with his best friend, join a club, become a TV reporter and grope some girl's tits.
To get all of this, he joined a club where he reported on Paranormal stuff with the other members.

Little did Bond know, the members were all undercover agents of UNSO and Terrorist Greenpeace!
His childhood friend also turned out to be the girl whose parents he killed. Apparently she resurrected them into plant zombies, because she's a magical sage.
One friend is a UNSO top agent, one friend has a servant who is Bond's alternative universe self, one friend is literally worse than Hitler, and one friend is a walking biohazard.

If that wasn't enough, the Lock turned up again, starting another war. The Lock is actually a cute deadpan girl, with an obsession for Bond. She sneaks into his bed at night and haunts him.
To top it all off, Bond's blood is now nuclear residue which he can shape at will!

Now Bond must choose a side, but no matter what happens, the earth is fucked either way.
Unless of course he can become a tree, build a canoe with his wood, fly it to the moon and terraform it. That would solve everything.

Written by Romeo Tanaka.

>>143388398
How is this spoiler free? That's literally the game.

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>>143389261

Do you guys thing we'll finally see what Esaka's power is?

>>143390965
But we know what it is. He's a Cutter-type that can buff his swords. The part where he was being cagey and hiding it was just as a precaution against Kotarou.

>>143390965
But we did. The whole reason he had to originally undergo military training and be a soldier (like he later made Kotarou) was because of how simple and relatively weak his power was.

>>143391155
I see, must have forgotten then, or not been paying enough attention.

Sixth route is going to be for Shimako and you all know it

Btw, was Esaka in every other route except Terra in disguise?

>>143388398
Thank you, I've been looking for this image.
>one friend is literally worse than Hitler
Akane did nothing wrong.

Good job deleting a conversation that was already over mods, you must feel so useful.

>>143393930
Good job bumping a dead thread faggot, you must feel so useful.

>>143394015
This is not a forum, threads arent dead until 404 girl shows up

>>143391456
You spelled Nishikujou wrong, anon.

>>143388398
What about the fuller version you planned on posting?